Patch "scsi: storvsc: Workaround for virtual DVD SCSI version" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    scsi: storvsc: Workaround for virtual DVD SCSI version

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     scsi-storvsc-workaround-for-virtual-dvd-scsi-version.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From f1c635b439a5c01776fe3a25b1e2dc546ea82e6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 09:15:53 -0800
Subject: scsi: storvsc: Workaround for virtual DVD SCSI version

From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>

commit f1c635b439a5c01776fe3a25b1e2dc546ea82e6f upstream.

Hyper-V host emulation of SCSI for virtual DVD device reports SCSI
version 0 (UNKNOWN) but is still capable of supporting REPORTLUN.

Without this patch, a GEN2 Linux guest on Hyper-V will not boot 4.11
successfully with virtual DVD ROM device. What happens is that the SCSI
scan process falls back to doing sequential probing by INQUIRY.  But the
storvsc driver has a previous workaround that masks/blocks all errors
reports from INQUIRY (or MODE_SENSE) commands.  This workaround causes
the scan to then populate a full set of bogus LUN's on the target and
then sends kernel spinning off into a death spiral doing block reads on
the non-existent LUNs.

By setting the correct blacklist flags, the target with the DVD device
is scanned with REPORTLUN and that works correctly.

Patch needs to go in current 4.11, it is safe but not necessary in older
kernels.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c |   27 +++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
@@ -379,8 +379,6 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(vcpus_per_sub_channel,
  */
 static int storvsc_timeout = 180;
 
-static int msft_blist_flags = BLIST_TRY_VPD_PAGES;
-
 
 static void storvsc_on_channel_callback(void *context);
 
@@ -1241,6 +1239,22 @@ static int storvsc_do_io(struct hv_devic
 	return ret;
 }
 
+static int storvsc_device_alloc(struct scsi_device *sdevice)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Set blist flag to permit the reading of the VPD pages even when
+	 * the target may claim SPC-2 compliance. MSFT targets currently
+	 * claim SPC-2 compliance while they implement post SPC-2 features.
+	 * With this flag we can correctly handle WRITE_SAME_16 issues.
+	 *
+	 * Hypervisor reports SCSI_UNKNOWN type for DVD ROM device but
+	 * still supports REPORT LUN.
+	 */
+	sdevice->sdev_bflags = BLIST_REPORTLUN2 | BLIST_TRY_VPD_PAGES;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static int storvsc_device_configure(struct scsi_device *sdevice)
 {
 
@@ -1256,14 +1270,6 @@ static int storvsc_device_configure(stru
 	sdevice->no_write_same = 1;
 
 	/*
-	 * Add blist flags to permit the reading of the VPD pages even when
-	 * the target may claim SPC-2 compliance. MSFT targets currently
-	 * claim SPC-2 compliance while they implement post SPC-2 features.
-	 * With this patch we can correctly handle WRITE_SAME_16 issues.
-	 */
-	sdevice->sdev_bflags |= msft_blist_flags;
-
-	/*
 	 * If the host is WIN8 or WIN8 R2, claim conformance to SPC-3
 	 * if the device is a MSFT virtual device.  If the host is
 	 * WIN10 or newer, allow write_same.
@@ -1529,6 +1535,7 @@ static struct scsi_host_template scsi_dr
 	.eh_host_reset_handler =	storvsc_host_reset_handler,
 	.proc_name =		"storvsc_host",
 	.eh_timed_out =		storvsc_eh_timed_out,
+	.slave_alloc =		storvsc_device_alloc,
 	.slave_configure =	storvsc_device_configure,
 	.cmd_per_lun =		255,
 	.this_id =		-1,


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from stephen@networkplumber.org are

queue-4.4/scsi-storvsc-workaround-for-virtual-dvd-scsi-version.patch